Comments on Coming to R from SQL, Python, SAS, Matlab, or LispTypePad2010-01-08T17:58:43ZBlog Administratorhttp://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/tag:typepad.com,2003:http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/01/the-r-rosetta-stone/comments/atom.xml/Ken Kleinman commented on 'Coming to R from SQL, Python, SAS, Matlab, or Lisp'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a010534b1db25970b012876fbd199970c2010-01-21T18:48:15Z2010-01-21T18:48:15ZKen Kleinmanhttp://sas-and-r.blogspot.com/I don't often self-promote, but for general users, a book I wrote with Nick Horton is effectively a meshed set...<p>I don&#39;t often self-promote, but for general users, a book I wrote with Nick Horton is effectively a meshed set of documentation for SAS and R. It can be a big help in transitioning if your investment in SAS is deep. See http://www.math.smith.edu/sasr for our book&#39;s home page and http://sas-and-r.blogspot.com/ for a blog with examples worked in SAS and R.</p>Alex Singleton commented on 'Coming to R from SQL, Python, SAS, Matlab, or Lisp'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a010534b1db25970b0120a7d636c0970b2010-01-15T08:23:57Z2010-01-15T08:23:57ZAlex Singletonhttp://areaprofiles.blogspot.comAs a SAS user recently taking up R I found http://www.statmethods.net/ invaluable - it is a really great site for...<p>As a SAS user recently taking up R I found http://www.statmethods.net/ invaluable - it is a really great site for the basics.</p>Christian Gunning commented on 'Coming to R from SQL, Python, SAS, Matlab, or Lisp'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a010534b1db25970b0120a7d5b636970b2010-01-15T04:49:16Z2010-01-15T04:49:16ZChristian Gunninghttp://blog.x14n.orgCensus microdata is at http://usa.ipums.org/usa/, incidentally.<p>Census microdata is at http://usa.ipums.org/usa/, incidentally.</p>Christian Gunning commented on 'Coming to R from SQL, Python, SAS, Matlab, or Lisp'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a010534b1db25970b012876d84a20970c2010-01-15T04:48:29Z2010-01-15T04:48:29ZChristian Gunninghttp://blog.x14n.orgI often turn up my nose at all the poor folks stuck using closed-source SAS, matlab, etc. Just this week,...<p>I often turn up my nose at all the poor folks stuck using closed-source SAS, matlab, etc. Just this week, though, I found myself with stuck with SPSS command files.</p>
<p>I was trying to get census microdata into R. They distribute fixed-width data files and separate command files for reading the data for Stata, SAS, and SPSS. Commence google hunt. I stumbled across PSPP, the GNU version of SPSS. This gave me an open-source tool that allowed me to save my data as an SPSS data file, then read it into R with via read.spss (in package foreign).</p>
<p>Diversity saves the day!</p>anthony damico commented on 'Coming to R from SQL, Python, SAS, Matlab, or Lisp'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a010534b1db25970b012876d82b81970c2010-01-15T04:19:45Z2010-01-15T04:19:45Zanthony damicohi, i wrote an r journal article on this topic: transitioning to r from sas, stata, and sudaan -- the...<p>hi, i wrote an r journal article on this topic: transitioning to r from sas, stata, and sudaan -- the examples i use are health policy statistics.. but it&#39;s perfectly relevant to this material :)</p>
<p>http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/2009-2_index.html</p>